Doug,Is your state retirement plan in lieu of paying into Social Security? If so I think the 10% is supposed to be figured on the other things you have. I was interested to see that you have an IRA, I had been told that since I had teacher retirement and a 403b available to me I could not have an IRA. Thanks for the info, I guess I had better do some more checking.

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